The price of this motherboard is 100 EUR / USD yet comes with pretty much all the modern features you need and expect from a decent motherboard, and in fact even a little somtin'-somtin' extra is to be found on it. But AMD, in together with a sweet lovin ASUS two-some, upped the ante a tiny bit more due to the integration of SATA6G and USB 3.0. This 880G chipset comes with embedded GPU for your generic desktop usage and HTPC requirements. It is the 890GX series little sister that is armed with an affordable price, yet still offers the same performance at many levels. Contrary, the mother we test today is a derivative of the AMD 800 series motherboard chipset, the 880G chipset. Ī complicated name doesn't mean the motherboard itself is complicated. Now say it out loud 10 times repeated after each other real fast :) hehe. Today, a review on a motherboard with the most nasty name to remember, let's test that shall we ? I'll say it once, then you go grab a cup of coffee, return and pronounce the name.

We however overclocked manually through the BIOS - the results were really dandy as we took it towards 4 GHz quite easily - and again, this overclock was managed with a simple OCZ Vendetta air-cooler.The M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard gets tested Now what you can do best with AMD overdrive is to determine how high you can overclock and then transfer the final stable in the bios to make it permanent (if you would like that of course). Play around with it, don't be afraid of a crash. In AMD Overdrive you can simply max out the CPU voltage towards ~1.55V and increase the multiplier. The new revision is version 3.2 and it's one of the best tweaking utilities out there.įor this review we used the latest 3.2 beta which has some cool new options.

However as always we prefer to overclock manually.Īlternatively you can use AMD's Windows compatible Overdrive interface that allows very easy overclocking of the Phenom II processors. in the case of this motherboard we can use the BIOS Step UP function which helps us overclock a nice bit all by itself. We can now overclock in several ways, modern motherboards often have automated overclock features. This processor has an unlocked multiplier.

The processor we are using in this test is obviously the Phenom II X6 1090T. If you decide to start an overclocking session with the Phenom processor typically you are much better off with the BE editions (CPU multiplier unlocked).

Asus m4a88td v evo